30/01/2017 – Recommendations to the Maltese Presidency in the domain of human rights.

23/01/2017 – Joint NGO letter to members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the deterioration of human rights in Turkey.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

“For a government marketing itself on law and justice, ironically the Polish government is seeking to put itself above the law and to deny an impartial justice system to its people,” said Iverna McGowan, Head of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office.

12/12/2016 – The European Commission has recently reported on progress made in the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement. Amnesty International is appalled that instead of acknowledging its flaws, the EU is pushing ahead with measures needed for the deal to be “firmly rooted as a stable and sustainable pillar of EU policy.”

It is outrageously hypocritical of the European Commission to insinuate that Greece alone is to blame for dire conditions

Amnesty International European Institutions Office invites you to

02/12/2016 – Speech delivered by Amnesty International European Institutions Office director Iverna McGowan, to the EU – NGO forum on 2 December 2016, on how the EU can work towards the eradication of torture.

Time and again we have seen such measures used by governments to curb freedom of expression, and to control some people’s movements and associations

These volume thresholds, that exempt companies from complying with legislation, are dangerous loopholes

It would make a mockery of the system if 90% of importers are excluded from rules designed to prevent conflict minerals